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baquerd posted:Yes, except landlords get to be proactive about risk reduction in many ways. If you don't like a lease, no one is forcing you to sign it. 
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Does anyone have a link to that old blog or the thread on SA where some idiot thought he was going to walk across the USA with a Wal-mart quality cart, raised kickstarter money for it, and then passed out after only eating raisins and never made it out of the first state park before taking a taxi home? I want to share it with hiking buddies and can't find it anymore.
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Sundae posted:Does anyone have a link to that old blog or the thread on SA where some idiot thought he was going to walk across the USA with a Wal-mart quality cart, raised kickstarter money for it, and then passed out after only eating raisins and never made it out of the first state park before taking a taxi home? I want to share it with hiking buddies and can't find it anymore. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3714480&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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Jun 26, 2018 17:23
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Jeza posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3714480&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 Thanks. You are awesome.
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Jun 26, 2018 17:28
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I reread that about once per year. It's great.
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Jun 26, 2018 18:38
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baquerd posted:Yes, except landlords get to be proactive about risk reduction in many ways. If you don't like a lease, no one is forcing you to sign it. You are a loving moron.
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Jun 26, 2018 18:47
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Turtlicious posted:You are a loving moron. I mean he's not wrong. A contract isn't enforceable unless it was voluntarily signed.
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Jun 26, 2018 18:50
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Maybe lets not have this thread be the frontlines in the fight against rentier capitalism.
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Jun 26, 2018 18:59
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I mean he's not wrong. A contract isn't enforceable unless it was voluntarily signed. I think the point was that sometimes it sounds a lot like "you can choose to live in a van down by the river"
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I mean he's not wrong. A contract isn't enforceable unless it was voluntarily signed. Yes but that simplistic understanding of the world and just in general is dumb as poo poo, disingenuous, and caustic to actually protecting people from landlords. It's just your typical double speak for "don't like it? Ducking starve / be homeless / save up switch cities" while ignoring the responsibilities of our law makers and institutions to remove unfair laws.
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Turtlicious posted:Yes but that simplistic understanding of the world and just in general is dumb as poo poo, disingenuous, and caustic to actually protecting people from landlords. It's just your typical double speak for "don't like it? Ducking starve / be homeless / save up switch cities" while ignoring the responsibilities of our law makers and institutions to remove unfair laws. What's unfair about a month to month lease agreed to up front?
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lol you guys I live in saskatchewan. There are no laws here.
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baquerd posted:What's unfair about a month to month lease agreed to up front? Well housing should be free for one.
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Jun 26, 2018 19:23
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Turtlicious posted:Well housing should be free for one. Hahahahaha
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Jun 26, 2018 19:30
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Hahahahaha Anything you require to live should be free.
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That goon lives with his gf’s parents so I’m not shocked that he’s not got a good grip on the reality of the way the world works
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Neito posted:Anything you require to live should be free. Housing wise though, that's not even a shared dorm room level of luxury. Certainly doesn't approach your own place.
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-201.70 rounded is -202. That would be considered rounding down, right?
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boop the snoot posted:-201.70 rounded is -202. Yes, because the second number is lower than the first. baquerd posted:Housing wise though, that's not even a shared dorm room level of luxury. Certainly doesn't approach your own place. Enough to afford a reasonable dignity. I'm not talking a mansion here, but we also shouldn't shove the poor in barracks and call it a day.
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Turtlicious posted:Yes but that simplistic understanding of the world and just in general is dumb as poo poo, disingenuous, and caustic to actually protecting people from landlords. It's just your typical double speak for "don't like it? Ducking starve / be homeless / save up switch cities" while ignoring the responsibilities of our law makers and institutions to remove unfair laws. I'm just saying be choosy about who you rent from. Every lease will be different, and there's a lot of skeevy landlords (and a lot of good landlords) out there. Read the contract, and if you don't like it, don't rent from them. Signing it and complaining about it being lovely later doesn't do a lot of good. Finding affordable housing can be difficult, but let's not pretend that everyone renter only has one lovely landlord to choose from. Also, with smaller landlords, try negotiating lease terms. A lot of times they're using a contract that they got form someone else, and will be more amenable to changes. Big corporations aren't gonna have that kind of flexibility, but in my experience are also less likely to put bullshit legally-gray clauses in there.
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Turtlicious posted:Yes but that simplistic understanding of the world and just in general is dumb as poo poo, Turtlicious posted:Well housing should be free for one. Uhhh
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Jeza posted:Maybe lets not have this thread be the frontlines in the fight against rentier capitalism. On the other hand,
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Jeff bezos makes enough money to pay every single goon’s rent for life and he wouldn’t even notice Housing should be free
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There are more empty houses than there are homeless people in America. That's just houses and ignores empty apartments.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:There are more empty houses than there are homeless people in America. That's just houses and ignores empty apartments. What does the intersection between homeless population and empty houses look like? Regionally, per-city, or otherwise? I don't know any numbers here. Gotta be some interesting numbers. Also interesting to read about the reasons why commercial real estate has high vacancies in some areas - it just makes financial sense to do so taking into consideration how commercial mortgages are calculated. Like it or not, capitalism drives everything.
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Stupid question (still not au fait with the whys and wherefores of how this forum works) how do I upload an image to a post (rather than doing a link)? I've seen some people have done it. Do I need a super advanced account upgrade or something or is it do able by a newbie with the lowest account?
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Re rents / notice I was an accidental landlord for a while (lived abroad for a few years). When I was coming back, I gave my tenant 4 months notice (assured shorthold on 1 year) because I thought I was going to live back there. Anyway, he found somewhere after 2 months and the agents said he had to pay the rent to the end of the contract (so 2 months he wasn't living there). I said to the agent - no, just let him pay to the day he leaves (I wanted to be sure he was gone without fuss!) I also didn't put the rent up for 4 years (he was a good tenant and kept it clean and neat for the 6-weekly inspections) so he was paying about £250pcm lower than the going rate. After he left, I found he had been subletting to 4 eastern European girls (it was a 2 bed flat in London - one of the bedrooms was the size of a suitcase) and was probably making double the rent on it. Obviously when the 6-weekly inspections occurred he scooted them all away and hid whatever they were sleeping on!
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Stupid question (still not au fait with the whys and wherefores of how this forum works) You have to have platinum I think. $10 for the little hand grenade, the image upload, personal messages and idk, maybe something else
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Stupid question (still not au fait with the whys and wherefores of how this forum works) AFAIK, you need Platnum, which comes with a bunch of other features, too. (Just use Imgur, it's more uselful)
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:how do I upload an image to a post (rather than doing a link)?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Re rents / notice Yeah, don't know the laws there, but here subletting for a profit is illegal and gently caress people who take advantage of immigrants and foreign students. I would have done my best to report that guy. There's actually a non-profit* in Denmark that will help sue landlords and subletters for any overages beyond what is deemed fair rent for the room/apartment's location and square footage. The amount is retroactive, up to two years. *Sort of, membership is 100 dollars, but that's small change compared to what I've seen some landlords try to pull illegally.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I'm just saying be choosy about who you rent from. Jaeluni Asjil posted:Stupid question (still not au fait with the whys and wherefores of how this forum works)
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Tiggum posted:Who has that kind of luxury? Yes thanks those who replied. I discovered I have a long-defunct imgur account when I tried to register with an email address and got told there was already an account. I want to support Lowtax and his health fund so am wondering what to buy for $10 or just donate it. I consider this forum really good value. So many intelligent and informed commentators on the threads I've read.
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Fruits of the sea posted:Yeah, don't know the laws there, but here subletting for a profit is illegal and gently caress people who take advantage of immigrants and foreign students. I would have done my best to report that guy. There's actually a non-profit* in Denmark that will help sue landlords and subletters for any overages beyond what is deemed fair rent for the room/apartment's location and square footage. The amount is retroactive, up to two years. Don't think there is any specific law about that, but sub-letting is usually prohibited in the leases. You have to spot it though and I used to get photo reports from my agent every 3 months ( every other inspection) and you would never have known he was. It was only all the post with Romanian and Polish names that arrived after he had left and inquiries I made of a couple of the flats in the block that I found it out. Still, he paid the rent without fuss and kept it pretty clean and tidy. So what the eye don't see... (appreciate though the point about taking advantage of immigrants and students but I have no evidence of that - rents in London now are double or more what I was charging just 4-5 years ago so whatever he was screwing out of them was probably reasonable). Just glad he went without trashing the place and running up ginormous bills! I did tell the agents what I had found out in case they were finding somewhere else for him.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Yes thanks those who replied. I discovered I have a long-defunct imgur account when I tried to register with an email address and got told there was already an account. If you're using chrome or firefox there are plug-ins that allow you to right-click on any image in your browser and automatically upload it to imgur without requiring you to be logged in to an account. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imgur-uploader/lcpkicdemehhmkjolekhlglljnkggfcf?hl=en
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syscall girl posted:If you're using chrome or firefox there are plug-ins that allow you to right-click on any image in your browser and automatically upload it to imgur without requiring you to be logged in to an account. Oh great, thanks!
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Yes thanks those who replied. I discovered I have a long-defunct imgur account when I tried to register with an email address and got told there was already an account. Lowtax has a patreon that I support every month. I get vastly more entertainment than the two-cups-of-coffee worth that I pitch in. If I was super god drat rich I would up my pledge to 500k for a month so that he would actually have to throw paint at a family of four at the zoo.
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:That goon lives with his gf’s parents so I’m not shocked that he’s not got a good grip on the reality of the way the world works Tbf your grandma's place is p. nice.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I want to support Lowtax and his health fund so am wondering what to buy for $10 or just donate it. I consider this forum really good value. So many intelligent and informed commentators on the threads I've read.
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baquerd posted:What does the intersection between homeless population and empty houses look like? Regionally, per-city, or otherwise? I don't know any numbers here. I think nationwide it's a 5:1 ratio but one of the issues is that a lot of the empty houses are in places people don't want to live. The mortgage crisis and Great Recession also didn't help. Part of the problem is that the price of houses is still inflated and the banks now, thanks to foreclosure, own a gently caress ton of houses they can't sell because it's way harder to get a loan now. A lot of people who would love to buy a house are too buried in student debt and stagnant wages to buy. A great many houses though are just in places that people left. Pittsburgh is at like half the population of its peak and there are entire abandoned neighborhoods. The area I'm originally from has a ton of houses just sitting empty because, well, there are no jobs other than "cook meth" so who want to live there? Granted another snag is that a hell of a lot of developers massively overbuilt before the economy shat itself. Entire neighborhoods of McMansions got tossed up as quickly and cheaply as possible that just never got sold. Some of them weren't even finished. Just entire blobs of overpriced, oversized suburban housing that nobody could ever actually buy. ToxicSlurpee fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Jun 27, 2018 |
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